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Mattias Desmet is the author of The Psychology of Totalitarianism -Mattias Desmet, Professor of clinical psychology at Gent University with a Master's in statistics.
Tucker Carlson produced a quality interview of Mattias Desmet.
The Epoch Times also has an excellent commentary and
there is our book review of "The Psychology of Totalitarianism" which points to the way to a state of psychological immunity through the practice and process of repentance.
Mattias Desmet's Substack,
Mattias Desmet, Research Gate.
"Under the influence of great fear, almost everybody becomes superstitious. Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity towards those who are not regarded as members of the herd. Fear generates impulses of cruelty, and therefore promotes such superstitious beliefs as seem to justify cruelty. Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear." ~Bertrand Russell.
Ecclesiastes 12:5 speaks of a fear that will get in the way of the people and shatters and dismays the people so that they are subject to a Mass formation which causes their ability to function in the "course of life" according to an undegenerated "moral character".